Death, Rebirth

Part I of Essay
Since the beginning of time, there has always been the intrigue and curiosity of death. It is by far the greatest mystery of all time and because of that, writers, painters and poets have used it in their works. Some people fear it as evil, while others embrace it as good. ....

Part II of Essay
.... death exemplifies itself within the works, as it does through three main elements: the motif, the setting and the characters. While it is obvious that James Joyce’s title for the his work, “The Dead” refers to the death the story portrays, Joseph Conrad’s book Heart of Darkness, expresses death through its title in a more subtle way by depicting it as a journey to death. The central motif of death which protrudes to the surface in “The Dead” is a circle. It symbolizes how everything in life moves in a cycle: birth, age, . It is this circle w ....